The Irish standard., 1887-07-02
a TRIFLE ODD.

that OF BOstOnians. The characteristics OF
the Boston style are delicacy and legibil-
ity, while that Of the New York style is
dispatch.
IT is somewhat remarkable that people
unused to the atmosphere Of Pitts burgh,
Pa, experience. upon going the first time
into that city, a sensation as OF severe
sore throat This is termed by many the
pittsburgh grip"
GAS is taking the place Of oil for lighting
the omnibuses of London, and is giving
very salts factory results. A sufficient
supply to last several days is conveniently
carried by q vehicle. The system is said
to be superior in the matters of comfort
and economy.
TRAVELLERS from Yucatan saysthat they
have caught fish in the waters OF the Gulf
Of Mexico which, when handled, gave forth
peculiar grunting sound and continued it
so vigorously that they were hurriedly
thrown back into the water This fish is
known to sailors as the ssgrunt," and to
science as the htsswlon.
A woMAN has invented an apparatus
called the sssomonollzer' which, as it's
name implies, is intended as guard
against insomnia It is constructed Of
hard rubber in the form Of an s, and is
applied to the carotid artery, COMPRISING
it, and thus regulating the flow of blood
to the head, and inducing sleep.
AT recent wedding in New York the
bride wore dress more than century
old. 1t was made for her maternal great
grandmother in 1773 and worn at her we'd
ding when Alexander Hamilton was
groomsman and General Washington and
his staff were present as guests. 1t was
worn for the second time by the brides
mother forty five years ago.
A MICHIGAN widower recently employed
young servant through an intelligence
Office. The girl was fair-looking and gave
evidence Of being competent in her work
and amiable in disposition. The outcome
of the engagement was the immediate mar
riage of employer and servant and the
bridegroom declared himself the happiest
man in the county.
In Wallingford, Conn.,, there is said to
oe woman, seventy-five years of age,
who has raised family of fifteen children
and had six husbands, the lady having
been bride three times since her sixtieth
birthday. She now lives alone on the
South Plains, having provided herself with
a coffin and complete burial outfit, which
is kept in the house ready for use.
BuL1rF1aHr1Na by the light of electric
lty is the latest departure in the customs
If the Mexicans. An account is given in
which most fearful and bloody encounter
took place between man and beast in the
bull-pen. The usual brilliancy of the
scene seemed to infuriate the BULL and he
made terrible charge killing and dis.
abling several horses and tossing many OF
the men disabled from the arena.
A POPULAR physician has publicly de.
clared in favor of the hustle. This affair
of wire and springs that is the delight of
every well-dressed woman, is said to pre-
serve an even temperature in the small Of
the back, preventing, by it's shape, the nu.
merous thicknesses of cloth that would 9th
erwise accumulate in that vicinity. The
hustle belongs to our time, and woman
without one can't be induced to move an
inch streetward.
APRoPos of the real-estate boom in the
West, they tell in. Kansas City of man
who offered another $S,ON for a parcel Of
land. The owner accepted the offer and
the buyer handed out silver dollar to
bind the bargain and afterward gave notes
for three, six and nine mouths. Before
the first note became due he had sold more
than enough of the land to t,ke up all OF
the notes, and up to date he has realized
more than $780, 00O from the Sale of lots,
and still owns half of the original parcel.
AN animal growing between the high
and low water-marks on. the Japanese
coast is mu i-worm called ISABELLA 1t
occupies hard, limy tube of it's own max
ing and gets its food when the high tide
comes up over its hiding-place by thrus.-
ing out head bushy with tentacl;s and
sucking in currents of water loaled with
minute particles of nutriment. Out of this
wriggling creature the shore people make
soup, which is true vermicelli, not a
paste imitation of ..little worms;" and it
is said to taste as badly as it smells.
A MEMBER Of the London Geological So.
ciety says: 81 once had a cat who always
sat up to the dinner table with me and
hal his napkin rounl his neck and his
plate and some fish. When he finished his
fish i sometimes gave him piece of mine.
One day just as the plates were put
around for the entree puss came rushing
upstairs and sprang into his chair with
two mice in his mouth. Before he could
be stopped he dropped mouse on his own
plate and then one on mine. He divided
his dinner with me as I had divided
mine with him."
WHAT ingenious devices the old topper
Will RESORT CO III Oruer W SeG Ills dCCus-
toned dram! One such recently asked a
druggist to sell him some alcohol for a
sore finger. He would not. ''Won't you
pour some on my finger, then," asked the
man. The druggist said he would, and
took hold of the. finger which was COM
pletely hidden in bandages of cloth. It
yielded to his touch, and he pulled at it,
the bandage came off and revealed the
fact that the finger was badly bogus, be-
ing made up of sponge. 1t was the fell
lows evident desire to get the sponge
well soaked and then suck out the alco
hoL
In description of singular island
named Tristan d. Acunha, in the South
Atlantic, London paper says: sit has the
distinction of having a Blue Book devoted
to, it and its concerns. There are on the
island nineteen families, comprising nine
ty-seven souls They recently suffered the
loss of fifteen Of their men through the
wrecking of boat They were afflicted
with plague of rats that escaped from a
shipwrecked vessel, destroying their po-
tato crop. The islanders are under the
leadership Of man named Peter Y. Green,
who was cast upon the island fifty years
ago, but they consider themselves as un.
der the British Government.